Boston Gay Men's Chos Shows Mic's Power to Surmount Homophobia New Documentary

Contents:

• BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS BUILDS BRIDG NEW DOCUMENTARY
• PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
• BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS SHOWS MIC'S POWER TO SURMOUNT HOMOPHOBIA NEW DOCUMENTARY
• BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS AND DISNEY HARMONIZE ON A FIRST-OF-S-KD NCERT
• DISNEY & BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS: IT'S AN CLIVE WORLD AFTER ALL
• THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS WILL PERFORM DISNEY’S ‘PRIDE CONCERT’
• BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS BUILDS BRIDG NEW DOCUMENTARY
• BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS APPOTS SARAH SHOFFNER NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
• WH ‘DISNEY PRIDE CONCERT,’ THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS SETS THE LGBTQ EXPERIENCE TO THE MIC AND MAGIC OF DISNEY
• BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS
• BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS SHOWS MIC'S POWER TO SURMOUNT HOMOPHOBIA NEW DOCUMENTARY

BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS BUILDS BRIDG NEW DOCUMENTARY

The host of “Mad About Mic” on SiriXM’s 1st Wave channel, Carlisle, the mother of a gay son, is also known for her activism for the LGBTQ muny.

To be able to walk to a gay bar seeg on the monor or blastg? My son, who you probably know is gay, is like, “Mom!

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

As the mother of a gay son, as well as a longtime ally, do you have any thoughts about that? "Chos Car" is a Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos program providg outreach iativ throughout the Coachella Valley. "So jt pick up a uple ems of school suppli and drop them off our box, and we'll be there to greet you and tell everyone about the Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos, and what we have g up.

“Billie Jean Kg was for sure a very important figure gay rights and the rights of women sport many years ago, and that is somethg to honor and rpect, but today looks like she’s jt an average n-of-the-l palist, ” he said.

The same is te of the Boston Gay Men’s Chos, which is planng to lnch s first full performance season sce the shutdown wh a holiday extravaganza, featurg four shows at Jordan Hall and one at Mechanics Hall Jackson, who sgs tenor the Boston Gay Men’s Chos, said felt “really weird” to jump to performg at this past summer’s Pri ncert whout havg done a holiday show, bee he feels like the fall rehearsals and wter ncerts help strengthen the chos as a muny every new season.

BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS SHOWS MIC'S POWER TO SURMOUNT HOMOPHOBIA NEW DOCUMENTARY

“[The Boston Gay Men’s Chos] is known for our very lively mic, pecially our wter ncerts, ” said Jackson. The four-part te crime seri, now streamg, foc on four victims, gay men the 1990s, who were murred, dismembered, their remas found garbage bags along a New Jersey highway.

BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS AND DISNEY HARMONIZE ON A FIRST-OF-S-KD NCERT

Adapted om an Edgar-wng 2021 book also lled “Last Call” by director Anthony Caronna and producer Howard Gertler, what ultimately emerg is an unsttg portra of the vlence done not jt to a gay quartet but to gays, lbians, trans people general. That mak the climatic urt trial a tense tt se of basic gay civil rights. “What we wanted to do was set the table so people unrstood that 2005, ” Caronna said, “gay marriage wasn’t a thg.

DISNEY & BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS: IT'S AN CLIVE WORLD AFTER ALL

For gays, 2005 was still a time where somebody uld get off for somethg heo. There was still a lot of homema homophobia wh the jtice system.

“Last Call” begs 1970s Florida where former bety queen Ana Bryant ws natnal attentn and enthiastic support by attackg homosexuals as unf parents. “Last Call” ends wh current Florida ernor Ron DeSantis echog Bryant wh attacks on trans children, gays and lbians. “One thg we disvered was the homophobia we talk about the ‘90s, Ana Bryant really was the spark for that.

THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS WILL PERFORM DISNEY’S ‘PRIDE CONCERT’

DeSantis’ biggt onle salvo so far me late last month, when the mpaign shared a now-leted vio that ed former print Donald Tmp’s prev words of support for gay and transgenr people to savage him.

It touched off days of negative verage which the mpaign was roundly nmned for promotg a msage that even fellow Republins saw as antigay, and has e to be seen as a misfire a mpaign stgglg to fd s Today PolicsA digt of the top polil stori om the Globe, sent to your box the episo also showed how, as DeSantis tri to ga momentum a crowd field, his mpaign is attemptg to beat Tmp onle, hopg to out-provoke a master provotr and w over the rners of the Inter where right-wg nservativ tra cendiary mem — and ’s a strategy that has drawn praise om some Republin strategists. Democrats have long sought to igne their own msag the Bin mpaign has been quick to embrace the “Dark Brandon” meme, which the print is picted as a kd of superhero, sometim wh lasers for analysts warn that Republins’ efforts to make heavy e of onle spac where antimocratic or antigay msag flourish uld turn their rhetoric to a race to the bottom. Boston Gay Men's Chos Shows Mic's Power to Surmount Homophobia New Documentary Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 Boston Gay Men's Chos Shows Mic's Power to Surmount Homophobia New Documentary'Mic Triumphs Homophobia' available now on Amazon Prime Vio BOSTON, Jan.

19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Gay Men's Chos (BGMC) is proud to announce the release of a new documentary film, "Mic Triumphs Homophobia.

BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS BUILDS BRIDG NEW DOCUMENTARY

Wrten and directed by filmmakers Michael Willer and Craig Coogan, BGMC's former executive director, "Mic Triumphs Homophobia" is available on Amazon Prime stat across the U. Move to ban LGBTQ-themed books, classroom discsns of LGBTQ issu, and accs to affirmg health re for transgenr youth, "Mic Triumphs Homophobia" is a timely monstratn of mic's power as both a healg balm and an effective tool the fight agast persistent anti-LGBTQ hatred and vlence. "Wh right-wg relig and polil forc workg to roll back LGBTQ rights here and abroad, 'Mic Triumphs Homophobia, ' is a much-need remr that the LGBTQ muny is powerful, rilient, and has alli willg to stand and fight for digny and equaly, " said BGMC Executive Director Sarah Shoffner.

BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS APPOTS SARAH SHOFFNER NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

"As Matthews Motsoeneng of South Ai's Mzansi Gay Choir says the film, 'Homophobia mak you or breaks you.

"Usg archival material, ntemporary tour and news footage, terviews wh past and prent chos members and BGMC staff, as well as mentary om activists, dience members, arts advot and polil lears, "Mic Triumphs Homophobia, " documents how a small, Boston-based chos beme global cultural ambassadors tg people about LGBTQ liv and enuragg acceptance and rpect for the LGBTQ muny.

"I n't wa for dienc to see this film, " said Craig Coogan, producer of "Mic Triumphs Homophobia. ""Mic Triumphs Homophobia" picts the protts and public cricism om anti-LGBTQ relig groups or polil officials that follow the chos jt about wherever they go. In Turkey, anti-LGBTQ Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saw to that the host venue for BGMC's performance—the first by an LGBTQ chos the untry—lost s perm for the event unls BGMC agreed to drop the word "Gay" om s name.

WH ‘DISNEY PRIDE CONCERT,’ THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS SETS THE LGBTQ EXPERIENCE TO THE MIC AND MAGIC OF DISNEY

South Ain Print Cyril Ramaphosa rpond by vg BGMC to jo him for the untry's annual Youth Day march, where he personally greeted each member of the chos and publicly weled them to South a trailer for "Mic Triumphs Homophobia" here: the Boston Gay Men's ChosThe Boston Gay Men's Chos is one of New England's largt and most succsful muny-based chos. CBS-WBZ named the Boston Gay Men's Chos one of the "top 5" chos the cy of Boston.

617-999-5644"Mic Triumphs Homophobia" is a timely monstratn of mic's power as both a healg balm and an effective tool the fight agast persistent anti-LGBTQ hatred and vlence. CisnView origal ntent to download multimedia: Boston Gay Men's Chos.

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“They said, yeah, we’re not even gog to talk to you, ” he The Big To-DoYour gui to stayg entertaed, om live shows and outdoor fun to the newt mms, movi, TV, books, dg, and, 2016, the Boston Gay Men’s Chos rerd a performance of “Circle of Life” om “The Ln Kg.

BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHOS SHOWS MIC'S POWER TO SURMOUNT HOMOPHOBIA NEW DOCUMENTARY

” The mic was arranged for the program by acpanist and Boston Gay Men’s Chos assistant mic director Chad Weirick. We talk about people who have to journey long distanc to fd plac where they n be accepted for who they are, cludg one man om South Ameri, who me here, joed the chos, and has jt been award cizenship, ” Reynolds is also allowg the show to be licensed by other ensembl that n pair wh their own members’ personal Boston Gay Men's Chos rehears “Disney PRIDE In Concert” wh an orchtra at the Benjam Frankl Instute of Klima for The Boston GlobeThe group knows the timg of this show is rehearsals began early 2022, Disney was thst to the center of a bate Florida, where March Republin Governor Ron DeSantis had signed the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, referred to by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bars “classroom stctn … on sexual orientatn or genr inty” krgarten through third graAt first, Disney stayed out of the heated bate about the bill.

But the thg about fay is that you leave room for them to learn and grow wh you, ” he said ’s been a joy to sg songs om his childhood that have also been important to the gay muny. ’ ”From left: Ala Bouchard, Andrew Doucette, and Michael Lombo rehearse wh Boston Gay Men's Chos at the Benjam Frankl Instute of Klima for The Boston GlobeReynolds knows the ubiquo “Frozen” anthem will be a h wh the dience, but his favore number the ncert is “God Help the Outsts” om Disney’s 1996 movie “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

” It has a special meang to him when sung by the Boston Gay Men’s Chos. ’ ”DISNEY PRIDE IN CONCERTPerformed by the Boston Gay Men’s Chos.